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Medea
- Review
- ★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Many readers will be familiar with the experience of almost falling asleep in a lecture theatre; it is probably less common for the urge to arise while a Greek tragedy is in full s…
Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
It’s hard to fault this set by Ed Byrne, although it’s very tempting to do so.
The Gilded Red Cage
- Review
- ★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
I actually feel guilty about disliking this play so much.
Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman.
Carnivale
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
If you’ve ever seen or read JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls you’ll be broadly familiar with the message of UnWish Theatre’s Carnivale, a dinner party with a difference where the …
My Romantic History
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
‘Isn’t memory funny?’, comments Amy, one of the two main characters of DC Jackson’s My Romantic History.
Sherica
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
Last year, Wednesday by Ian Winterton was one of my picks of the Fringe.
Gary Delaney: Purist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Most comedy shows, like most reviews, come with some kind of inbuilt narrative, some trajectory from A to B that allows the performer to hook on their best jokes, anecdotes and obs…
Withered Hand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
‘I’m Withered Hand, and these are my friends’, announces Dan Willson as his three-piece backing band join him on the stage of the Electric Circus.
Belgrave and Manera's Music Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
Wondrous Flitting
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2011
The title of Wondrous Flitting is a double reference: it stands for both the miraculous appearance in 24-year-old waster Sam’s house of the Holy House of Loreto, a medieval site of…
Mr Kolpert
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Adapted from a 1990s German play by David Geiselmann, this student production is a thrilling race through the cruelty and aggression underlying social etiquette.
Frisky and Mannish: The College Years
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev…
Bec Hill Didn't Want to Play Your Stupid Game Anyway
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood.
Spent
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2011
Have you ever seen a man sweat through the back of a business suit? If that’s an experience in which your life is lacking, it’s one of many reasons why you might be interested in s…
The Meeting
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Reuben Johnson’s The Meeting commands a strong central performance by Reuben Johnson, speaking the lines of Reuben Johnson under the keen directorial eye of Reuben Johnson.
Henning Wehn No Surrender
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
This is the second year running that I have seen a Fringe set by Henning Wehn – and although the man is a brilliant stand-up, the common threads running through his material are …
Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle…
Wednesday
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Brutality is hard to sustain onstage.
Random History of Rock'n'Roll in Middle English, by Geoff Chaucer Junior
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
Guilt & Shame
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Guilt and Shame is a sketch show about the failure of a sketch show, or more specifically its utter breakdown.
Man Who Was Thursday
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them.
Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes…
Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
Tim Turnbull's Tales of Terror - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t…
Apples
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Adapted from Richard Milward’s 2006 novel, Apples is a slice of teen life in all its grottiness, expanded to cartoonish proportions from a starting point of Northern reality.
Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2011
‘I wuv you with the intensity of a thousand suns,’ yells Will (Jack Swain) in Misshapen Theatre’s Phillipa And Will Are Now In A Relationship, a romantic comedy told entirely throu…
Mandrake
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
The Mandrake charts familiar territory for a Renaissance city comedy cuckoldry, trickery, and professional stereotypes but as might be expected from a play by Machiavelli, th…
Bashir Lazhar
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
French-Canadian drama Bashir Lazhar draws its tension from the point at which two forms of loneliness intersect – that of an Algerian immigrant trying to make his way in a new wo…
Fee Fie Foe Fum
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Kids are a notoriously tough crowd.
Threshold
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
Some would say the journey is more important than the destination, but this rule doesn’t apply to 19;29’s Threshold, a choose-your-own-adventure psychodrama presenting the implosio…
Allsopp and Henderson's The Jinglists
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Comedy is subjective a cliché the truth of which I’d never truly experienced before seeing Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists.
The National
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2011
There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an…
Last Easter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
Richard Herring: What is Love Anyway?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov…
'Dream Man' by James Carroll Pickett
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
The Tempest
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Aces High promise a radical, multimedia, re-gendered re-imagination of The Tempest, but deliver a bit of a damp squib, something more like a light drizzle or a power shower when th…
Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work.
Lach: The Day I Went Insane
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Previous reviewers have compared Lach to Woody Allen and Woody Guthrie, and while these two are good reference points I’d like to start by pointing out just how much he looks, and …
Pink Noise by FORK
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2011
There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the…
Don't Call Us We'll Call You
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
Stitching
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Various media have opted for sex as the defining theme of this year’s Fringe, and a number of the shows I’ve been able to see are characterised by a clear-eyed recognition of the d…
Hitler! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
Satirical portraits of Adolf Hitler have been around since Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’, through ‘The Producers’, to the Mr T Experience’s ‘Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend’.
Josie Long: Be Honourable!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
Caligula
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Although his writing is poetry as much as philosophy, there is a danger that any performance of a work by Albert Camus might neglect the more intriguingly human aspects of his lite…
The Degenerates
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
In a dystopian future society where all homosexuals are ‘rehabilitated’ by being forced to have straight sex in a sinister hostel, one man and one woman do a lot of shouting in Rib…
Project Adorno's Top Ten of Popular Culture
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
Chris Martin: No. Not That One
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
In This Lonely Town
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Andrianna Smela and her accompanist Maria Dessena are classically trained musicians playing cabaret music, and my main gripe with this programme of the songs of Kurt Weill and othe…
Body of Water
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
There’s a comedy show at this year’s Fringe entitled All Young People Are C*nts.
Damion Larkin: Cuddly Loser
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Early in his set Cuddly Loser Damion Larkin describes himself as ‘five foot seven and made of pies.
Pork
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
David Egan’s Pork is an interesting stab at an interesting topic; set in a future dystopia where pigs live side by side with feral humans in a sinister charitable enclave known onl…
Alfie Brown - The Love You Take
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2011
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
Henning Wehn - My Struggle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Henning Wehn might be the most bizarre stand-up comedian I have ever seen, but I think that’s intentional.
An Evening With David Sedaris
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2011
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
Chris Addison
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Picture Chris Addison in your mind for a minute.
Night Heron
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun …
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